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that this action is one of a category of
actions which do not individually or
cumulatively have a significant effect on
the human environment. This proposed
rule simply promulgates the operating
regulations or procedures for
drawbridges. This rule is categorically
excluded, under figure 2–1, paragraph
(32)(e), of the Instruction.
Under figure 2–1, paragraph (32)(e), of
the Instruction, an environmental
analysis checklist and a categorical
exclusion determination are not
required for this rule. We seek any
comments or information that may lead
to the discovery of significant
environmental impact from the
proposed rule.
List of Subjects in 33 CFR Part 117
Bridges.
For the reasons discussed in the
preamble, the Coast Guard proposes to
amend 33 CFR part 117 as follows:
PART 117—DRAWBRIDGE
OPERATION REGULATIONS
1. The authority citation for part 117
continues to read as follows:
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 499; 33 CFR 1.05–1;
Department of Homeland Security Delegation
No. 0170.1.
2. Revise § 117.993 paragraph (c) and
remove paragraph (d) to read as follows:
§ 117.993
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(c) The draw of the New England
Central Railroad Bridge across
Missiquoi Bay, mile 105.6, at Swanton,
Vermont, shall operate as follows:
(1) From June 15 through September
15, the draw shall remain in the full
open position at all times and shall only
be closed for the passage of rail traffic
or the performance of maintenance
authorized in accordance with subpart
A of this part.
(2) From September 16 through June
14, the draw may remain in the closed
position and shall be opened on signal
for the passage of vessel traffic after at
least a twenty four hour notice is given
by calling the number posted at the
bridge.
(3) The draw may be operated either
remotely by the New England Central
Railroad train dispatcher located at St.
Albans, Vermont or manually by a draw
tender located at the bridge.
(4) A sufficient number of infrared
cameras shall be maintained in good
working order at all times with a clear
unobstructed view of the channel under
the bridge, and the up and down stream
approaches to the bridge. A signal horn
and message boards located both up and
down stream, necessary to warn marine
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traffic that the bridge will be closing,
shall also be maintained in good
working order at all times. In the event
that any of the cameras, navigation
lights, horn, or message board become
disabled, personnel shall be deployed to
the bridge to be on scene within two
hours from the known time of the
equipment failure.
(5) The draw may operate remotely as
follows: Once it is determined that the
draw must be opened or closed, the
train dispatcher shall observe the
waterway both up and down stream via
the infrared cameras to verify that the
channel is clear of all approaching
vessel traffic. All approaching vessel
traffic shall be allowed to pass before
the bridge may closed. Once it is
determined that no vessel traffic is
approaching the dispatcher shall sound
the warning horn and activate the up
and down stream message boards
indicating that the bridge will be
closing. After at least a one minute
delay the draw may then be closed and
the swing span navigation lights shall
display as red to indicate the bridge is
in the closed position. Once the train
clears the bridge the draw shall be
returned to the full open position and
the swing span lights shall display as
green to indicate the draw is in the full
open position.
(6) In the event that the dispatcher
cannot verify that the channel is clear of
all vessel traffic and the bridge cannot
be safely closed, an on-scene train
crewmember shall observe the waterway
for any vessel traffic and then
communicate with the train dispatch
office either by radio or telephone to
request the bridge be safely closed.
Personnel shall then be deployed to the
bridge to arrive within two hours to
inspect and repair the bridge remote
operation equipment. The bridge shall
be operated manually from the tender’s
house located at the bridge until all
necessary repairs are completed to the
remote operation equipment.
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Dated: October 16, 2012.
Daniel B. Abel,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander,
First Coast Guard District.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R09–OAR–2012–0790; FRL–9750–2]
Revisions to the California State
Implementation Plan, Placer County
Air Pollution Control District
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
EPA is proposing to approve
revisions to the Placer County Air
Pollution Control District (PCAPCD)
portion of the California State
Implementation Plan (SIP). These
revisions concern oxides of nitrogen
(NOx) emissions from biomass boilers.
We are approving a local rule that
regulates these emission sources under
the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act). We
are taking comments on this proposal
and plan to follow with a final action.
DATES: Any comments must arrive by
December 10, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments,
identified by docket number EPA–R09–
OAR–2012–0790, by one of the
following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal:
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line
instructions.
2. Email: steckel.andrew@epa.gov.
3. Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel
(Air–4), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105–3901.
Instructions: All comments will be
included in the public docket without
change and may be made available
online at www.regulations.gov,
including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes
Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Information that
you consider CBI or otherwise protected
should be clearly identified as such and
should not be submitted through
www.regulations.gov or email.
www.regulations.gov is an ‘‘anonymous
access’’ system, and EPA will not know
your identity or contact information
unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send email
directly to EPA, your email address will
be automatically captured and included
as part of the public comment. If EPA
cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact
you for clarification, EPA may not be
able to consider your comment.
Docket: Generally, documents in the
docket for this action are available
electronically at www.regulations.gov
SUMMARY:
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and in hard copy at EPA Region IX, 75
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,
California. While all documents in the
docket are listed at
www.regulations.gov, some information
may be publicly available only at the
hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted
material, large maps), and some may not
be publicly available in either location
(e.g., CBI). To inspect the hard copy
materials, please schedule an
appointment during normal business
hours with the contact listed in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Idalia Perez, EPA Region IX, (415) 972–
3248, perez.idalia@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document, ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’
and ‘‘our’’ refer to EPA.
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B. Does the rule meet the evaluation
criteria?
C. EPA Recommendations To Further
Improve the Rule
D. Public Comment and Final Action
III. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. The State’s Submittal
Table of Contents
I. The State’s Submittal
A. What rule did the State submit?
B. Are there other versions of this rule?
C. What is the purpose of the submitted
rule?
II. EPA’s Evaluation and Action.
A. How is EPA evaluating the rule?
A. What rule did the State submit?
Table 1 lists the rule addressed by this
proposal with the dates that it was
adopted by the local air agency and
submitted by the California Air
Resources Board.
TABLE 1—SUBMITTED RULE
Local agency
Rule No.
Rule title
Amended
Submitted
PCAPCD ...........
233
Biomass Boilers ............................................................................................
06/14/12
09/21/12
On October 11, 2012, EPA determined
that the submittal for PCAPCD Rule 233
met the completeness criteria in 40 CFR
Part 51 Appendix V, which must be met
before formal EPA review.
B. Are there other versions of this rule?
We finalized a limited approval and
limited disapproval of an earlier version
of Rule 233 on January 19, 2012 (77 FR
2643). That action incorporated Rule
233 into the California SIP, including
those provisions identified as deficient.
C. What is the purpose of the submitted
rule?
NOX helps produce ground-level
ozone, smog and particulate matter,
which harm human health and the
environment. Section 110(a) of the CAA
requires States to submit regulations
that control NOX emissions. Rule 233
limits NOX emissions from biomass
boilers. EPA’s technical support
document (TSD) has more information
about this rule.
II. EPA’s Evaluation and Action
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A. How is EPA evaluating the rule?
Generally, SIP rules must be
enforceable (see section 110(a) of the
Act), must require Reasonably Available
Control Technology (RACT) for each
category of sources covered by a Control
Techniques Guidelines (CTG) document
as well as each major source in
nonattainment areas (see sections
182(b)(2) and 182(f)), and must not relax
existing requirements (see sections
110(l) and 193). The PCAPCD regulates
an ozone nonattainment area (see 40
CFR part 81), so Rule 233 must fulfill
RACT.
Guidance and policy documents that
we use to evaluate enforceability and
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RACT requirements consistently
include the following:
1. ‘‘State Implementation Plans;
Nitrogen Oxides Supplement to the
General Preamble; Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 Implementation of
Title I; Proposed Rule,’’ (the NOX
Supplement), 57 FR 55620, November
25, 1992.
2. ‘‘Issues Relating to VOC Regulation
Cutpoints, Deficiencies, and
Deviations,’’ EPA, May 25, 1988 (the
Bluebook).
3. ‘‘Guidance Document for Correcting
Common VOC & Other Rule
Deficiencies,’’ EPA Region 9, August 21,
2001 (the Little Bluebook).
4. ‘‘Determination of Reasonably
Available Control Technology and Best
Available Retrofit Control Technology
for Industrial, Institutional, and
Commercial Boilers, Steam Generators,
and Process Heaters,’’ CARB, July 18,
1991.
5. ‘‘Alternative Control Techniques
Document—NOX Emissions from
Industrial/Commercial/Institutional
(ICI) Boilers,’’ U.S. EPA 453/R–94–022,
March 1994.
6. ‘‘Alternative Control Techniques
Document—NOX Emissions from Utility
Boilers,’’ US EPA 452/R–93–008, March
1994.
B. Does the rule meet the evaluation
criteria?
We believe this rule is consistent with
the relevant policy and guidance
regarding enforceability, RACT, and SIP
relaxations. The TSD has more
information on our evaluation.
C. EPA Recommendations To Further
Improve the Rule
The TSD describes additional rule
revisions that we recommend for the
next time the local agency modifies the
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rule but are not currently the basis for
rule disapproval.
D. Public Comment and Final Action
Because EPA believes the submitted
rule fulfills all relevant requirements,
we are proposing to fully approve it as
described in section 110(k)(3) of the Act.
We will accept comments from the
public on this proposal for the next 30
days. Unless we receive convincing new
information during the comment period,
we intend to publish a final approval
action that will incorporate this rule
into the federally enforceable SIP. Final
approval of Rule 233 would satisfy
California’s obligation to implement
RACT under CAA section 182 for this
source category and thereby terminate
both the sanctions clocks and the
Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) clock
associated with limited approval and
limited disapproval of this rule which
we finalized on January 19, 2012 (77 FR
2643).
III. Statutory and Executive Order
Reviews
Under the Clean Air Act, the
Administrator is required to approve a
SIP submission that complies with the
provisions of the Act and applicable
Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k);
40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in reviewing SIP
submissions, EPA’s role is to approve
State choices, provided that they meet
the criteria of the Clean Air Act.
Accordingly, this proposed action
merely proposes to approve State law as
meeting Federal requirements and does
not impose additional requirements
beyond those imposed by State law. For
that reason, this proposed action:
• Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory
action’’ subject to review by the Office
of Management and Budget under
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Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735,
October 4, 1993);
• Does not impose an information
collection burden under the provisions
of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
• Is certified as not having a
significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities
under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5
U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
• Does not contain any unfunded
mandate or significantly or uniquely
affect small governments, as described
in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–4);
• Does not have Federalism
implications as specified in Executive
Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10,
1999);
• Is not an economically significant
regulatory action based on health or
safety risks subject to Executive Order
13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997);
• Is not a significant regulatory action
subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR
28355, May 22, 2001);
• Is not subject to requirements of
Section 12(d) of the National
Technology Transfer and Advancement
Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) because
application of those requirements would
be inconsistent with the Clean Air Act;
and
• Does not provide EPA with the
discretionary authority to address
disproportionate human health or
environmental effects with practical,
appropriate, and legally permissible
methods under Executive Order 12898
(59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
In addition, this proposed action does
not have tribal implications as specified
by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249,
November 9, 2000), because the SIP is
not approved to apply in Indian country
located in the State, and EPA notes that
it will not impose substantial direct
costs on tribal governments or preempt
tribal law.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
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pollution control, Incorporation by
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Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: October 30, 2012.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
44 CFR Part 67
[Docket ID FEMA–2011–0002; Internal
Agency Docket No. FEMA–B–1233]
Proposed Flood Elevation
Determinations
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.
AGENCY:
On November 29, 2011 FEMA
published in the Federal Register a
proposed rule that contained an
erroneous table. This document
provides corrections to that table, to be
used in lieu of the information
published at 76 FR 73537. The table
provided here represents the flooding
sources, location of referenced
elevations, effective and modified
elevations, and communities affected for
Sullivan County, Pennsylvania (All
Jurisdictions). Specifically, it addresses
the flooding sources Big Run, Little
Loyalsock Creek, Loyalsock Creek, and
Muncy Creek.
DATES: Comments are to be submitted
on or before February 7, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. FEMA–B–
1233, to Luis Rodriguez, Chief,
Engineering Management Branch,
Federal Insurance and Mitigation
Administration, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, 500 C Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–4064
or (email) Luis.Rodriguez3@fema.dhs.
gov.
SUMMARY:
Luis
Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering
Management Branch, Federal Insurance
and Mitigation Administration, Federal
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Emergency Management Agency, 500 C
Street SW., Washington, DC 20472,
(202) 646–4064 or (email) Luis.
Rodriguez3@fema.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) publishes proposed
determinations of Base (1% annualchance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and
modified BFEs for communities
participating in the National Flood
Insurance Program (NFIP), in
accordance with section 110 of the
Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973,
42 U.S.C. 4104, and 44 CFR 67.4(a).
These proposed BFEs and modified
BFEs, together with the floodplain
management criteria required by 44 CFR
60.3, are minimum requirements. They
should not be construed to mean that
the community must change any
existing ordinances that are more
stringent in their floodplain
management requirements. The
community may at any time enact
stricter requirements of its own or
pursuant to policies established by other
Federal, State, or regional entities.
These proposed elevations are used to
meet the floodplain management
requirements of the NFIP and also are
used to calculate the appropriate flood
insurance premium rates for new
buildings built after these elevations are
made final, and for the contents in those
buildings.
Correction
In the proposed rule published at 76
FR 73537, in the November 29, 2011,
issue of the Federal Register, FEMA
published a table under the authority of
44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled
‘‘Sullivan County, Pennsylvania (All
Jurisdictions)’’ addressed the flooding
sources Big Run, Little Loyalsock Creek,
Loyalsock Creek, and Muncy Creek.
That table contained inaccurate
information as to the location of
referenced elevation, effective and
modified elevation in feet, and/or
communities affected for Loyalsock
Creek. In this document, FEMA is
publishing a table containing the
accurate information, to address these
prior errors. The information provided
below should be used in lieu of that
previously published.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R09-OAR-2012-0790; FRL-9750-2]
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Placer
County Air Pollution Control District
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Placer County Air
Pollution Control District (PCAPCD) portion of the California State
Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern oxides of nitrogen
(NOx) emissions from biomass boilers. We are approving a local rule
that regulates these emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or
the Act). We are taking comments on this proposal and plan to follow
with a final action.
DATES: Any comments must arrive by December 10, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2012-0790, by one of the following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-
line instructions.
2. Email: steckel.andrew@epa.gov.
3. Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel (Air-4), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA
94105-3901.
Instructions: All comments will be included in the public docket
without change and may be made available online at www.regulations.gov,
including any personal information provided, unless the comment
includes Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Information that you
consider CBI or otherwise protected should be clearly identified as
such and should not be submitted through www.regulations.gov or email.
www.regulations.gov is an ``anonymous access'' system, and EPA will not
know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the
body of your comment. If you send email directly to EPA, your email
address will be automatically captured and included as part of the
public comment. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical
difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be
able to consider your comment.
Docket: Generally, documents in the docket for this action are
available electronically at www.regulations.gov
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and in hard copy at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,
California. While all documents in the docket are listed at
www.regulations.gov, some information may be publicly available only at
the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted material, large maps), and
some may not be publicly available in either location (e.g., CBI). To
inspect the hard copy materials, please schedule an appointment during
normal business hours with the contact listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Idalia P[eacute]rez, EPA Region IX,
(415) 972-3248, perez.idalia@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, ``we,'' ``us'' and
``our'' refer to EPA.
Table of Contents
I. The State's Submittal
A. What rule did the State submit?
B. Are there other versions of this rule?
C. What is the purpose of the submitted rule?
II. EPA's Evaluation and Action.
A. How is EPA evaluating the rule?
B. Does the rule meet the evaluation criteria?
C. EPA Recommendations To Further Improve the Rule
D. Public Comment and Final Action
III. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. The State's Submittal
A. What rule did the State submit?
Table 1 lists the rule addressed by this proposal with the dates
that it was adopted by the local air agency and submitted by the
California Air Resources Board.
Table 1--Submitted Rule
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Local agency Rule No. Rule title Amended Submitted
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PCAPCD.......................... 233 Biomass Boilers............ 06/14/12 09/21/12
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On October 11, 2012, EPA determined that the submittal for PCAPCD
Rule 233 met the completeness criteria in 40 CFR Part 51 Appendix V,
which must be met before formal EPA review.
B. Are there other versions of this rule?
We finalized a limited approval and limited disapproval of an
earlier version of Rule 233 on January 19, 2012 (77 FR 2643). That
action incorporated Rule 233 into the California SIP, including those
provisions identified as deficient.
C. What is the purpose of the submitted rule?
NOX helps produce ground-level ozone, smog and
particulate matter, which harm human health and the environment.
Section 110(a) of the CAA requires States to submit regulations that
control NOX emissions. Rule 233 limits NOX
emissions from biomass boilers. EPA's technical support document (TSD)
has more information about this rule.
II. EPA's Evaluation and Action
A. How is EPA evaluating the rule?
Generally, SIP rules must be enforceable (see section 110(a) of the
Act), must require Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) for
each category of sources covered by a Control Techniques Guidelines
(CTG) document as well as each major source in nonattainment areas (see
sections 182(b)(2) and 182(f)), and must not relax existing
requirements (see sections 110(l) and 193). The PCAPCD regulates an
ozone nonattainment area (see 40 CFR part 81), so Rule 233 must fulfill
RACT.
Guidance and policy documents that we use to evaluate
enforceability and RACT requirements consistently include the
following:
1. ``State Implementation Plans; Nitrogen Oxides Supplement to the
General Preamble; Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 Implementation of
Title I; Proposed Rule,'' (the NOX Supplement), 57 FR 55620,
November 25, 1992.
2. ``Issues Relating to VOC Regulation Cutpoints, Deficiencies, and
Deviations,'' EPA, May 25, 1988 (the Bluebook).
3. ``Guidance Document for Correcting Common VOC & Other Rule
Deficiencies,'' EPA Region 9, August 21, 2001 (the Little Bluebook).
4. ``Determination of Reasonably Available Control Technology and
Best Available Retrofit Control Technology for Industrial,
Institutional, and Commercial Boilers, Steam Generators, and Process
Heaters,'' CARB, July 18, 1991.
5. ``Alternative Control Techniques Document--NOX
Emissions from Industrial/Commercial/Institutional (ICI) Boilers,''
U.S. EPA 453/R-94-022, March 1994.
6. ``Alternative Control Techniques Document--NOX
Emissions from Utility Boilers,'' US EPA 452/R-93-008, March 1994.
B. Does the rule meet the evaluation criteria?
We believe this rule is consistent with the relevant policy and
guidance regarding enforceability, RACT, and SIP relaxations. The TSD
has more information on our evaluation.
C. EPA Recommendations To Further Improve the Rule
The TSD describes additional rule revisions that we recommend for
the next time the local agency modifies the rule but are not currently
the basis for rule disapproval.
D. Public Comment and Final Action
Because EPA believes the submitted rule fulfills all relevant
requirements, we are proposing to fully approve it as described in
section 110(k)(3) of the Act. We will accept comments from the public
on this proposal for the next 30 days. Unless we receive convincing new
information during the comment period, we intend to publish a final
approval action that will incorporate this rule into the federally
enforceable SIP. Final approval of Rule 233 would satisfy California's
obligation to implement RACT under CAA section 182 for this source
category and thereby terminate both the sanctions clocks and the
Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) clock associated with limited
approval and limited disapproval of this rule which we finalized on
January 19, 2012 (77 FR 2643).
III. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
Under the Clean Air Act, the Administrator is required to approve a
SIP submission that complies with the provisions of the Act and
applicable Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a).
Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve State
choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the Clean Air Act.
Accordingly, this proposed action merely proposes to approve State law
as meeting Federal requirements and does not impose additional
requirements beyond those imposed by State law. For that reason, this
proposed action:
Is not a ``significant regulatory action'' subject to
review by the Office of Management and Budget under
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Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993);
Does not impose an information collection burden under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
Is certified as not having a significant economic impact
on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
Does not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or
uniquely affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4);
Does not have Federalism implications as specified in
Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999);
Is not an economically significant regulatory action based
on health or safety risks subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR
19885, April 23, 1997);
Is not a significant regulatory action subject to
Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001);
Is not subject to requirements of Section 12(d) of the
National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272
note) because application of those requirements would be inconsistent
with the Clean Air Act; and
Does not provide EPA with the discretionary authority to
address disproportionate human health or environmental effects with
practical, appropriate, and legally permissible methods under Executive
Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
In addition, this proposed action does not have tribal implications as
specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000),
because the SIP is not approved to apply in Indian country located in
the State, and EPA notes that it will not impose substantial direct
costs on tribal governments or preempt tribal law.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by
reference, Intergovernmental relations, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone,
Particulate matter, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: October 30, 2012.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2012-27324 Filed 11-8-12; 8:45 am]
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